Month: April 2018

First in my mind is creating regular, steady, reliable income for this corporation as it reboots. Criteria:

Low time impact

Quick to viable income

Must exceed current income so I can work on the business without disruption

Must be repeatable for others with little education requirement, little capital, and no cost to me or to them. I intend on offering this 100% free. I am a proponent of UBI and this model must allow people to create ready income in the vein of UBI.

This will be the basis of the entire plan for the other areas of the corporation as well. Everything hinges on this model.

Business model has been chosen, and education I have been through the past few years will drive it. Working out the kinks over the next few months with the intent to launch mid-2018.

At the beginning of this new journey, I started with, “What would I do if I were unemployed tomorrow.” I asked myself if I would like to continue to work as an I.T. contractor, which was the original goal of this corporation – I have been a contractor for many years and incorporated (S-Corp) due to a requirement of a very large client. That got a hard NO. While a great career path and something I have been involved with since 1980, I have become hyper-specialized in a proprietary system and have absolutely no desire to go back to school to learn more I.T. stuff. I used to be passionate about it, but not any more.

Then I asked myself, “What have I done in life that made me feel successful, that I was willing to really put myself out there for, and that I feel contributed to real and tangible benefit.

I answered myself with

the local “Rally For Sanity” that I organized with the Daily Show crew to try to help elevate the national conversation

the TSA protest when I proudly and peacefully stood outside metro-Airport with one other individual to say the erosion of our presumption of innocence and violation by our government were not acceptable

Co-Founding the Ferndale Cat Shelter and Cafte Lounge

All three of those things – in addition to others – are moments I am proud of. All of them required that I put myself out there outside of my comfort zone (quite a bit) and none of them involved a hunger for money or power. Just the opposite.

I have had Third Wave Matrix, Inc. since 2006 but the past 3 or 4 years really haven’t done anything with it. There were a few lingering bills – like web hosting etc – that I just hadn’t shut down, but no real income or ambition. I almost let it dissolve. Over this year I have had a few epiphanies and decided just this week that I am not ready to do that. Instead, I want to relaunch and refocus. This time on ideas and goals that really matter to me. I won’t be one of those people that just complains online about the state of things without doing anything.

I am in the process of a complete change in mission, goals, and objectives. Stay tuned. As I go, I will be documenting and blogging about my journey – it won’t be perfectly formed commentary. Instead, it will be my personal letter to the world in hopes that what I do here will mean something, help some people (and some animals). In general, just making the world a better place.